RE: gmc problem with window manager delete even

["Fox, Kevin M" <KMFox mail bhi-erc com>]

I have been talking about this bug for months... My solution was to go to
RedHat 5.9... Somehow it fixed the problem.... Maby an updated library or
somethig.... 

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Lyndon Drake [SMTP:lyndon@stat.auckland.ac.nz]
> Sent:	Friday, April 16, 1999 1:54 PM
> To:	Federico Mena Quintero
> Subject:	Re: gmc problem with window manager delete even
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Something I should have noticed before is that gmc only crashes the first
> time I run it in a particular X session.  Note that this appears to be
> unrelated to gnome-session.  I tried just running E (with nothing else):
> the first time I started gmc it crashed when I clicked the close button,
> and from then on it ran without problems.  The same behaviour is
> repeatable
> when running gnome-session: my Gnome session comes up, I open a gmc
> window,
> click the close button, and gmc crashes.  In this case, the session
> manager
> respawns gmc, and from then on it works perfectly.
> 
> I finally worked out that plain-gmc is the "real" gmc, so I ran it under
> gdb and got the following backtrace.  Note that my original report said
> that it segfaulted, whereas in fact it got a SIGABRT.
> 
> [lyndon@beat lyndon]$ gdb plain-gmc
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> This GDB was configured as "i386-redhat-linux"...
> (gdb) run
> Starting program: /opt/gnome/bin/plain-gmc 
> 
> Gdk-ERROR **: an x io error occurred
> aborting...
> 
> Program received signal SIGABRT, Aborted.
> 0x40390811 in __kill ()
> (gdb) bt
> #0  0x40390811 in __kill ()
> #1  0x4039063f in raise (sig=6) at ../sysdeps/posix/raise.c:27
> #2  0x4039184f in abort () at ../sysdeps/generic/abort.c:83
> #3  0x40363135 in g_logv (log_domain=0x40242e52 "Gdk", 
>     log_level=G_LOG_LEVEL_ERROR, format=0x40242f07 "an x io error
> occurred", 
>     args1=0xbffff2cc) at gmessages.c:389
> #4  0x403631e6 in g_log (log_domain=0x40242e52 "Gdk", 
>     log_level=G_LOG_LEVEL_ERROR, format=0x40242f07 "an x io error
> occurred")
>     at gmessages.c:406
> #5  0x402274d5 in gdk_x_io_error (display=0x814c2f0) at gdk.c:1074
> #6  0x40290139 in _XIOError ()
> #7  0x4028db4e in _XRead ()
> #8  0x4028d493 in _XEventsQueued ()
> #9  0x40281bc8 in XPending ()
> #10 0x40232b48 in gdk_event_prepare (source_data=0x0,
> current_time=0xbffffc4c, 
>     timeout=0xbffffc48) at gdkevents.c:2028
> #11 0x40361078 in g_main_iterate (block=1, dispatch=1) at gmain.c:762
> #12 0x40361499 in g_main_run (loop=0x81e6580) at gmain.c:923
> #13 0x401952cb in gtk_main () at gtkmain.c:475
> #14 0x80aaf44 in gtkrundlg_event (h=0x818d9a0) at gmain.c:356
> #15 0x8066b1c in run_dlg (h=0x818d9a0) at dlg.c:942
> #16 0x80ab269 in non_corba_create_panels () at gmain.c:498
> #17 0x80ab285 in create_panels () at gmain.c:514
> #18 0x8064565 in setup_mc () at main.c:1854
> ---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit---
> #19 0x8064d8d in do_nc () at main.c:2225
> #20 0x8065907 in main (argc=1, argv=0xbffffcf4) at main.c:3116
> (gdb) 
> 
> 
> This is with XFree86 3.3.3.1 (RedHat RPMs), E 0.15.5, GTK+ 1.2.1, glib
> 1.2.1,
> ORBit 0.4.3, gnome-libs 1.0.8, gnome-core 1.0.5, gcc 2.8.1, glibc 2.0.7.
> 
> Lyndon
> 
> On Fri, Apr 16, 1999 at 12:12:10PM -0400, Federico Mena Quintero wrote:
> > >  I'm having trouble with gmc on my RedHat 5.2 Intel machine.  I have
> gnome-libs 1.0.8, gnome-core
> > >  1.0.5 and mc 4.5.30.  The problem occurs both with and without
> session management.  I compiled
> > >  gnome with gcc 2.8.1, the machine otherwise being a standard RH 5.2
> with updates.
> > >  
> > >  gmc --nowindows creates the desktop without any problems, and I can
> open windows and browse them
> > >  without any trouble.  The problem occurs when I click the X button on
> the title bar (which should
> > >  send a delete event to the mc window).  I expected the particular
> window I had open to close;
> > >  instead gmc dumped segfaulted.
> > 
> > Please make sure you have the latest ORBit and the latest Gtk+.
> > 
> >   Federico
> > 
> > 
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